Quotes about Philosophy
How short is human life! the very breath Which frames my words accelerates my death.
- Hannah More
So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is the very joy of this earthly life to think that it will come to an end.
- Charles Spurgeon
A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference nor does he try to make a victory of it.
- Paulo Coelho
Take it that you have died today, and your life's story is ended; and henceforward regard what future time may be given you as uncovenanted surplus, and live it out in harmony with nature.
- Marcus Aurelius
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
- Marcus Aurelius
Arsene Wenger is different. He's a purist. He's a professor of football. A professor.
- Alexis Sanchez
In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.
- Philip Yancey
The good and wise lead quite lives
- Euripides
Teiresias: Yes well, what is it they say, you're as young as you feel? Kadmos: We must get to the mountain. Should we call a cab? Teiresias: That doesn't sound very Dionysian. Kadmos: Good point. Let's walk.
- Euripides
For to be in one's right mind causes grief: but madness is an ill; yet it is better to perish, nothing knowing of one's ills.
- Euripides
Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.
- F Scott Fitzgerald